TL;DR An ARTM customer survey lists several possible changes to the ticket pricing system in Montreal. Metro and bus ticket price hikes, especially, appear to be on the horizon.

The public transit agency is doing its best to ameliorate service, including with more frequent metro trains, but can do little in the longterm without a major planning intervention.

Unfortunately, despite calls from the STM president for a new metro line to relieve the overburdened Orange line, the current provincial government has demonstrated its reluctance to fund any major transit projects in Montreal. The CAQ has opted, instead, to invest in suburban trains and roads.

As a result, the city of Montreal, STM, and ARTM, the umbrella agency that manages transit in the Montreal region, will need to seek out creative solutions to both improve service and meet their vision for the future of the urban transportation network.

The ARTM is strategically unspecific about which servies would be subject to these changes, referring only to an increase in the price of trips by "train" instead of naming either the metro or suburban rail system.

However, La Presse indicates that metro ticket price hikes are certainly a possibility.

Other schemes include different prices for bus and train rides and pricing based on the frequency of service.

The one thing that is clear form this survey is that metro and bus ticket increases in some form are on the horizon.